{"id":210380,"date":"2020-07-15T05:44:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T05:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210380"},"modified":"2020-07-17T06:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:16:45","slug":"flashback-germany-warns-citizens-to-avoid-using-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210380","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Germany warns citizens to avoid using Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Geoffrey Lean \u2013 The Independent Sept 9, 2007<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-121614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Wifi-symbol-resize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Wifi-symbol-resize.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Wifi-symbol-resize-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Wifi-symbol-resize-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>People should avoid using Wi-Fi wherever possible because of the risks it may pose to health, the German government has said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Its surprise ruling \u2013 the most damning made by any government on the fast-growing technology \u2013 will shake the industry and British ministers, and vindicates the questions that The Independent on Sunday has been raising over the past four months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And Germany&#8217;s official radiation protection body also advises its citizens to use landlines instead of mobile phones, and warns of &#8220;electrosmog&#8221; from a wide range of other everyday products, from baby monitors to electric blankets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/green-living\/germany-warns-citizens-to-avoid-using-wi-fi-5329224.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Warnings about the adverse heath effects of WiFi are still being sounded. The more recent advice against exposing children to high levels of WiFi radiation comes from a former Director of Canada\u2019s National Cancer Institute\u2019s Epidemiology Unit, Prof. Anthony Miller.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">As more countries ban iPads and mobile phones from the classroom, could wifi be giving our children cancer?<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Top cancer expert\u00a0Prof Anthony Miller claims wifi beamed through classrooms could be as dangerous could be as dangerous as tobacco and asbestos<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Prof Miller of Toronto University says Wifi should not be allowed in schools<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Some nations have begun banning or restricting wifi, as well as mobile phones\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Geoffrey Lean \u2013 Daily Mail June 21, 2020<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/addicted-to-smartphones.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-162067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/addicted-to-smartphones.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Plenty of children these days are so obsessed with having internet access that they will virtually refuse to go on holiday unless the hotel or villa has wifi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They\u2019re certainly used to being fully \u2018connected\u2019 at school, where millions of youngsters who were once taught with chalk on a blackboard now sit in circles on the floor surfing the web on their tablets or phones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The trouble is that though smartphones are used as educational tools in some lessons, they can also be a dangerous distraction during the day for pupils. In fact, youngsters taking phones into schools has become such a contentious issue that now a minister has called for them to be banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yet there is another issue which is perhaps even more important: one of the world\u2019s top cancer experts has said the wifi beamed through Britain\u2019s classrooms \u2014 radio waves that send signals between base units and devices such as iPads and mobile phones \u2014 could be as dangerous as \u2018tobacco and asbestos\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Prof Anthony Miller of Toronto University couldn\u2019t be blunter, saying: \u2018[Wifi] should not be allowed in schools.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Professor Miller \u2013 who was Director of Canada\u2019s National Cancer Institute\u2019s Epidemiology Unit, and has held top posts in the World Health Organisation and the German Cancer Research Centre \u2013 is not alone in his fears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He is the latest in a long line of top scientists to warn that the invisible waves of electromagnetic radiation that now constantly wash over us all &#8211; dubbed \u2018electrosmog\u2019 even by some academics &#8211; may cause a future cancer epidemic, and that it\u2019s children who are most at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some concerned nations have already begun banning or restricting wifi, as well as mobile phones \u2013 another source of electrosmog \u2013 in schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But not Britain. Eighteen years after a landmark official inquiry, headed by a former Government Chief Scientist, recommended a raft of measures to reduce this kind of radiation, virtually nothing has been done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the meantime, we have effectively been conducting a massive medical experiment on ourselves, and our children \u2013 who some campaigners are now referring to as \u2018Generation Zapped\u2019. For the fact is that human beings have never been exposed to anything like this before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The ubiquitous electrosmog from mobile phones, wifi, baby monitors, smart energy meters and a host of other internet-connected products is a billion times stronger than the natural electromagnetic fields in which living cells developed over the past 3,800 million years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The worrying thing is that we don\u2019t know how this experiment will end. That is partly because it will take years to play out: massive exposure only began recently and cancers, for example, can take decades to develop. But partly it is because scandalously little research has been done into the possible effects of electrosmog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Most of the little we are learning comes from studies on mobile phones, which deliver relatively intense doses of the radiation to the head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some studies have given them the all-clear, but these have generally only looked at short-term exposures &#8211; people who had not used mobiles for long enough (generally less than a decade) to develop cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">By contrast, important Swedish research found that people exposed to them for ten years or more were twice as likely to develop a malignant brain tumour on the side of the head where they usually held their handsets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This finding was broadly confirmed by a massive study, covering thousands of people in 13 countries, by the world\u2019s top authority on cancer-causing substances \u2013 the World Health Organisation\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">These studies caused the Agency to conclude in 2011 that \u2018electrosmog\u2019 is a possible cause of the disease in humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And Professor Anthony Miller believes that new research \u2013 including a French study that suggested a fivefold increase in brain cancer risk from mobile phones \u2013 should cause the Agency to upgrade its assessment, and condemn the radiation as a clear carcinogen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Studies have also linked mobiles with cancer of the salivary gland and acoustic neuromas &#8211; benign tumours on the auditory nerve which usually cause deafness and problems with balance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What worries Prof Miller, and other top scientists who share his fears, is that increasing evidence that mobile phones can cause cancer may be revealing just the tip of the iceberg of a far wider danger from electrosmog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course, a room full of wifi radiation delivers a much smaller dose than a mobile phone held to the side of the head. But people are exposed to it for much longer either in offices, schools or at home, especially if they leave it on overnight in the house, which almost everyone does.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And it\u2019s not only cancer that is causing concern. Campaigners, and some senior academics, point to evidence that the thickening electrosmog may be linked with heart failure, male infertility, autism, severe cognitive impairment, damage to chromosomes and DNA, and many other conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is also increasingly accepted that about three in every hundred people are especially sensitive to the radiation, suffering symptoms like headaches, ringing ears, chest pains and sleeplessness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It should be stressed that nothing is proven, and it\u2019s important not to be alarmist, but, whatever the true danger may be, it is children who are certainly most at risk both from mobile phones and from electrosmog in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Their nervous systems are still developing, making them more vulnerable. Their skulls are thinner, so their brains get bigger doses. And quite simply, with many decades ahead of them, they will be exposed to more of the radiation in their lifetimes than adults today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So the proliferation of wifi into so many of our schools is worrying. While using wifi, tablets, laptops and other devices emit radiation as well as receiving it, which also increases children\u2019s exposure. More than a million tablets are now in use in Britain\u2019s classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Campaigners urge schools to avoid danger and still get the benefits of such technology by hardwiring devices, through, for example, direct connections to desks, or points on walls and floors, or hanging from the ceiling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More and more countries and cities are indeed going back to the future in this way. France has banned wifi from nursery schools (the younger the child, the greater the danger), and restricted its use in teaching children up to the age of 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It has also banned mobile phones from all schools, partly because they are socially disruptive. But the country\u2019s official Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety has recommended that tablets and other wifi devices should be regulated as phones are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cyprus has also banned wifi from kindergartens, and only permits it in the staff offices of junior schools for administration purposes. Israel also prohibits it in pre-schools and kindergartens, and allows it only to be gradually introduced in class as children get older. The Israeli city of Haifa has hardwired its school system so children can used computers that don\u2019t need wifi to connect to the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Frankfurt, meanwhile, hardwired 80 per cent of all its schools more than a decade ago, while the school authorities in Salzburg, Austria, wrote to headteachers officially advising them not to use wifi as long ago as 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ghent in Belgium has banned wifi in pre-schools and daycare centres, while individual local authorities in Spain and Italy have removed it from all their schools. Even faraway French Polynesia has prohibited it in nursery schools and limits it in primary ones. And so the list goes on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Here in Britain, by contrast, there is only complacency and inaction &#8211; despite authoritative early warnings of trouble ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Way back in 2000, a official inquiry headed by Sir William Stewart, a former Government Chief Scientist, produced a landmark report recommending ways of reducing exposure to electrosmog, especially for children. Tony Blair\u2019s government publicly accepted most of its recommendations \u2013 then failed to implement them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Five years later, Sir William &#8211; as chairman of the official National Radiological Protection Board &#8211; issued another report urging similar action, with the same lack of results. Then, in 2007 &#8211; he was by then Chairman of the Health Protection Agency (HPA) \u2013 he voiced concern about wifi in schools. But its use has only spread rapidly since then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Public Health England, which succeeded the HPA, now says it \u2018sees no reason why wifi should not continue to be used in schools\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Official action on electrosmog in Britain is limited to advising that \u2018excessive use\u2019 of mobiles by children should be \u2018discouraged\u2019. Even this has been watered down from a decade ago, when youngsters were urged to avoid the phones for \u2018non-essential calls\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As Professor Miller recently told a conference organised by the Environmental Health Trust, it is high time to start taking sensible precautionary measures to protect our children. The alternative is to do nothing and hope for the best. That\u2019s what we did with tobacco and asbestos, and we know how that turned out. In the Professor\u2019s words: \u2018We ignore this at our future peril.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5872001\/Could-wifi-giving-children-cancer.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 Germany advised its citizens to avoid using WiFi. 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